Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18088
(formerly occ/1396)

	+ ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν μακάριον διονύσιον·

	Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνι πραπίδεσσιν ἐλίξας·
	μοῦνος ἐνι μεροπεσσι μακάρτατον εὕραο κῦδος·
	ῥήτρην εὐκέλαδον γλυκεροῖς στομάτεσσιν ἀείσας·
	ὀλβιοτεύκτων ἀνθρώπων ἠγλάισας φύλα·

Type(s)	[2376] Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσιν ἑλίξας (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1787 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 10v
Palaeographical information	The title and initial letter Μ are written in red ink.
Contextual information	This epigram is part of a corpus of introductory texts to the works of Ps.-Dionysius the Aeropagite. It immediately precedes another epigram, inc. 'εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα'.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment	Canart (1970: 133) gives only the first and the last words but refers to Vat. gr. 374, f. 6r and 376, f. 11v.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1787/0028
Bibliography	Primary P. Canart, 1970, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1745-1962. Codicum enarrationes (vol. 7.1), Vatican City: 133 S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 74
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Floris Bernard, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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